The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1887-08-31
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

NEWS PARAGRAPHS.
A meeting OF the Nicholas County
Gas Company vas held last Thursday
night, and additional steps taken
towards getting the necessary amount
to Jeging the work of boring fer gas.
The Supreme Council of the Ameri-
can Legion of Honor held the first
session Of its biennial convention in
Washington last Wednesday. The
Supreme Council consists of forty-six
delegates, representing a total men,
bership of $1,000. The order is carry
ing a benefit insurance of SlS3, 100000,
and has collected and paid in the course
of the last two years about 81. 100000.
The late freshets in lower South
Carolina have damaged the rice crops
greatly, in some places completely
running them. The most serious result,
however, will be the loss Of the labor
ers, who will be compelled to seek en-
ployment in other fields, and the con
sequent abandonment Of rice planta-
lions by planters.
Sam Ransdell, who attempted TO
murder his wife in Mercer county, has
been held in 5000 bond to answer for
hi- appearance, failing to give which
he has been taken to the Jail at Frank
fort to avoid a mob Mrs. Ransdell has
filed a suit for divorce, almOny and the
custody Of her children.
The Louisville Southern Railroad
Company executed a mortgage which
was recorded There, on the Louisville
Southern Railway property entire for
81 so, 600. The mortgages were The
Louisville Safaty Vault and Trust Co.,
and Thos. H. Shirley, Trustee.
The Trustees Of the NJ. E. Church,
North, have sold their church on
Broadway to Miss Lila Morrison for
8, 500 Miss Morrison will convert the
building into a school for which it is
admirably suited by its location. The
property originally cost $500 and the
price at which il is now sold is just the
amount of the debt on it.-Danville
AdvOcats.
Whip, the Willard Hotel lottery
man, who was paralyzed the other
day, gels mighty little sympathy from
the newspapers and public. They say
he ought to be in the penitentiary for
perpelrating a hugh swindle, to die at
the end OF rope at the completion o:
his term for the murder of his clerk,
Stockton.
Ex-Gov. Blackburn has a TO certain
degree recovered from his recent attack,
and a dispatch TO the COuFier-Journal
states that he may live several months
or suddenly expire during a recurrence
Of the attack He still receives his
friends and retains a lively interest in
political affairs.
AAAAGAtAN heA1 AtAANA ~ y ~ AafN Vi
cult Court with the trial of Lindsey
Smith, charged with the murder of an
unknown white man, who was found
dead last fall near Window, a small
town six miles north of here. The
case was given to the jury just before
noon, and after being out three hours
brought in a verdict Of guilty Of willul
manslaughter, and fixed the penalty at
twenty-One years in the penitentiary.
-Jessamine Journal
The will Of the late John NJ. Clay, has
been Admitted to probate aud recorded.
The instrument provides that all the
property of the testator, both real and
personal, shall be given TO his widow.
The estate is worth from $50 600 to
$50, OOO, and consists of a finely inn
proved bluegrass farm one mile from
Lexington ON the Tate's Creek pike,
besides fine stable Of raeehOrses.
There are over IA, OOO, 900 head of cat
lie in the Argentine Republic that run
on the pampas the year round without
any feed but the native grasses. They
are poor beef cattle, being long and
lank and lean, and valuable only for
their hides. Cattle on the range are
quoted at S. per head. Notwithstand-
ing cattle are cheap, good beef is very
scarce and so per cent. higher than in
America.
Geo. T. Baker, who kept a store at
BishOptOn, in this county, disappeared
from home on election day and his
creditors are now figuring their losses.
Baker had faculty of buying oxen
and other goods and cllaitels on time
and either selling Them for cash or
morigaging them, and he is said to
have accumulated a neat little sum be-
fore taking his depariue for Missouri.
He wrote back from Chillicothe, in
That State, few days ago, tlhat some
people here didn't like him much aud
they could 90 TO h-l.-Danvilie Ad-
vOeatc.
Several localities have recently claim
ell The last surviving war-horse Of The
rebellion. 1t may be that each has a